Re: Bush-Market Kabul
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:15 pm
One thing I remember back from my deployment was the fact that cases of MRE's and other stuff was thrown in dumpsters by the GI's. Often because the supply people didn't want them back,"too much trouble" some poeple said. To me it was plain laziness. I do remmeber many of the civilian contractors would on a daily basis collect stuff from dumpsters and the locals who were contracted by them, they too scavenged the FOB for GI stuff.
Me personally I did the same thing but more often than not I would find ammo, pyro, body amor, etc left in the most obvious places. That I tried to turn to supply or get to an amnesty box so the locals couldn't get them. No telling how many locals got there hands on stuff like that.
But somebody mentioned that the bacl market has always had a place in the Middle East, so why stop it, you could slow it down, that would be better.
As for China, well...someday we'll go at them head on but right now we seemed to be slowly being bought out thanks in part of the Obama administration.
Me personally I did the same thing but more often than not I would find ammo, pyro, body amor, etc left in the most obvious places. That I tried to turn to supply or get to an amnesty box so the locals couldn't get them. No telling how many locals got there hands on stuff like that.
But somebody mentioned that the bacl market has always had a place in the Middle East, so why stop it, you could slow it down, that would be better.
As for China, well...someday we'll go at them head on but right now we seemed to be slowly being bought out thanks in part of the Obama administration.
